Firms Apply Lessons From Euro
To Debugging Systems for Y2K

As a technological warm-up act to the millennium transition, the euro made its debut without a hitch. That gives comfort to the armies of programmers who hope to raise the curtain on 2000 to applause rather than the sound of computers crashing around the world.

"I'm much more confident after going through the [euro] weekend," says Martine Dinne, a managing director at Brussels-based Euroclear, the world's largest...